Looking towards the future

[handirifle]

Am wanting a real breech loader for BPCR and as much as I love the look of a Sharps, most are out of my price range and the fact that I shoot left handed makes it a bit awkward with that big hammer near me.

I do like the looks of the Browning High Wall or replicas, which brings me to my question.

How good are the Dixie High Wall replicas?

In say a 45-70, IF I were to use smokeless in it, an idea what pressure levels it would stand up to?  I doubt I'd ever use smokeless, but just wondering about strength.

[ShortStake]

handrifle,

The .45-70 cartridge is a SAAMI approved round and thusly has been "proofed" for smokeless loads.  Any modern day rifle by any manufacturer fits this description.  There are NO proof loads for modern day loaded Black Powder Cartridge rounds.

A good example of modern day firearms chambered for cartridges that are NOT part of the SAAMI drawings would be the 1885 Browning Highwall rifles chambered in .40-65 and .45-90.  Both rifles were stamped "BLACK POWDER ONLY" because there is NO SAAMI specifications for the .40-65 and .45-90. 

Perhaps Texas Mac will chime in with the "for sure" stamping found on the 1885 Browning rifles chambered in .40-65 and .45-90.

Lastly I believe the Dixie brand 1885 Highwall replicas are imported from Uberti and may use Pedersoli barrels.  My Stoeger 1885 Highwall in .45-70 is a well made firearm with several improvemts to the original 1885 Winchester design.  Improvements being a bushed firing pin, both a flat spring and a coil spirng in the action.  The flat spring is utilized for the lever only and the coil spring is used for the hammer only.   

[handirifle]

Shortstake
Thanks, I guess I should have been a bit clearer in my question.  Have the Dixie High Wall replicas (in 45-70) been tested with any modern smokeless loads?  I ask because I was originally thinking Sharps, and while the rifle will be mostly BPCR usage, the use of smokeless is not ruled out, for me.  The Sharps has been tested to modern Marlin load levels (or more, closer to Ruger #1 from what I've read) in the 45-70, just wondering if the Dixie High Wall had received any such testing, in smokeless calibers of course.

[boommer]

handirife they are made by uberti and they say all modern loads so would mean smokeless in 45-70 

[handirifle]

OK thanks.